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Frases de Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Fecha de nacimiento: 3. Febrero 1874
Fecha de muerte: 27. Julio 1946
Otros nombres: Gertruda Steinová, Gertruda Stein
Gertrude Stein fue una escritora estadounidense de novelas, poesía y teatro. Nació en West Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania y fue criada en Oakland, California. En 1903, Stein se trasladó a París, haciendo de Francia su hogar por el resto de su vida. Stein es considerada una pionera de la literatura modernista. Su obra rompió con la narrativa lineal y las convenciones temporales del Siglo XIX. Stein era, también, conocida como una importante coleccionista de arte moderno.
En 1933, Stein publicó sus memorias de París, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, escritas desde el punto de vista de Toklas, su compañera de vida. El libro se convirtió en un best-seller, transformando la relativa "oscuridad literaria" de Stein en una figura de culto a la luz que ganó la atención general.[1]
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress / Public domain
Frases Gertrude Stein
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Fuente: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Fuente: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
Contexto: Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing.
„We are always the same age inside.“
As quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946
Fuente: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Contexto: Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen were something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting.
One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.
Fuente: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
„All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…“
Statement quoted by Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast (1964) Ch. 3, it had also provided the epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Contexto: All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.
"A Circular Play," from Last Operas and Plays (1949) [written in 1920]
Contexto: A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
